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Dr. Sabar Mirza Farman Farmaian; Benefactor and Former Director of Pasteur Institute of Iran

 Pasteur Institute of Iran (PII) is known for its history of benefaction by exquisite characters, the most prominent of who is the family of Farman Farmaian. Dr. Sabar Mirza Farman Farmaian, born in 1912 in Tehran, resided as the director of PII for a period of six years (1971-1977). Furthermore, he devoted his house (located in Shemiranat) for the establishment of a center to study and c...

New NIH Director

In a previously reported investigation of 616 women with breast cancer included in a case-control study, we found an association between tumour stage at presentation and breast self examination (BSE) (Mant et al., 1987). Women who had both practised and been taught BSE had more favourably staged tumours than other women. A number of other studies, summarised in the meta-analysis by Hill et al. ...

Dr. Sabar Mirza Farman Farmaian; Benefactor and Former Director of Pasteur Institute of Iran

He was born to a famous family of Farman Farmaian. His father, AbdolHossein Mirza Farman Farmaian, the grandson of Abbas Mirza and Fath-Ali Shah, was born in 1852, in Tabriz. He was known as “Salar Lashkar” and “Farman Farma”. He finished his elementary studies at Dar ul-Funun, after which he went to an Austrian school to learn military skills. He held numerous critical positions during 1881-19...

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Louis Pasteur

detail, a valuable contribution and a positive demonstration of his "philology and erudition". The images receive, by comparison, cursory treatment. It is only after repeated perusals that the reader grasps how simple the material really is, basically three male-female pairs dateable to 1539 and their derivatives: the De Negker-Vogtherr set from Strasbourg; the Sabio set from Venice; and the Go...